Rangeela 1995

[Jarrell Campbell]

Rangeelareleased on 8 September 1995, and proved to be a major box office success. The film received critical acclaim upon release, with particular praise directed towards the film's soundtrack and Matondkar's performance, thus proving to be a breakthrough for her. It was screened at the mainstream section of the International Film Festival of India.[3]

A street-toughened orphan by the name of Munna (Aamir Khan) is befriended by some kind folks, whose effervescent daughter Mili (Urmila Matondkar) soon grows to be his best buddy. Both gravitate toward the Mumbai movie industry. While Mili finds occupation as a movie extra, Munna earns his livelihood selling movie tickets in the black market.

Mili has ambitions of becoming an actress. Fortune glances her way when she dances her way into a movie star's attention. This actor, Raj Kamal (Jackie Shroff), arranges for her to be auditioned for the heroine's role in his upcoming film called Rangeela. Mili's shortcomings amount to distractions, but thanks in no small way to Munna and Raj, she lands the role.

Raj and Munna both fall for Mili, but Mili is too busy making the movie to notice any of this. She starts spending a lot of time with Raj during the filming. Munna tries many times to tell Mili that he loves her, but he is unable to, or Raj gets in the way. Eventually, feeling inferior, Munna decides to leave Mili to Raj, who can give her a better life than he can. The matter is not resolved though, as Mili hears of this on the film's opening night reading the letter that Munna left for her. After learning that Munna is even leaving the town, she emotionally runs out of the function to find Munna. Raj is initially angry at Mili for leaving the function midway. Mili tells Raj that Munna has written in the letter that he loves her but has misunderstood their relationship and left the town for good. Raj is taken aback when Mili tearfully tells him that she too loves Munna and can't think of a life without him. Having realized his mistake, Raj decides to reunite Mili and Munna.

The soundtrack featured 7 songs composed by A. R. Rahman with lyrics penned by Mehboob and an instrumental theme song. The audio was released in 14 May 1995 by Rahman's mother Kareema. It is listed in almost all lists of best Bollywood soundtracks.[6]

The soundtrack fetched Rahman two filmfare awards, Filmfare Award for Best Music Director and Filmfare R. D. Burman Award for New Music Talent. Mehboob got two nominations for Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist, for the tracks "Kya Kare" and "Tanha Tanha". Swarnalatha, Shweta Shetty and Kavita Krishnamurthy were nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for their respective tracks.

The song "Yaaro Sun Lo Zara" was originally composed for a Telugu film Super Police (1994) as "Baabu Love Cheyyara". The soundtrack was also released in Tamil, with title Rangeela itself and lyrics penned by Vairamuthu. However, the reused track "Yaaro Sun Lo Zara" was not included in the Tamil version. The soundtrack rights are now acquired by Tips Music Company.

Despite the film's huge success, It was still regarded as a film ahead of its time as the films made during the early 1990s had dated plots and storylines. Shekhar Kapur called it 'The film of the 21st Century with great music and visuals' at the screening of the film.[citation needed] The look and presentation of Urmila Matondkar in the film became the talk of the town as it re-invented the image of the Bollywood Heroine. Aamir Khan played an unusual character of a Mumbaiya Tapori in the early stages of his career and that proved to be the milestone for him. A. R. Rahman's music of the film became such a rage that it topped the charts for almost a decade. The songs still remain popular as they have a fresh feel. The film established careers of so many technicians and the people who worked behind the camera.

Rangeela[1][1] is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written, directed and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. It stars Aamir Khan, Urmila Matondkar and Jackie Shroff. The film was A. R. Rahman's first Hindi film with an original score and soundtrack, as his previous Hindi releases were dubbed versions of his Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films.[2]

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As a taxpayer shouldn't we pay the entire defence budget to the USA or Russia to defend our borders? Now that should save the national exchequer all the financial woes of OROP and in one fell swoop do away with corruption in arms sales. Can national security be outsourced ? Now this is a fundamental question which the western world learned decisively when the Roman empire collapsed. The Romans who had reached the zenith of human civilisation for that time became too indolent and started outsourcing the hard work of soldiering to the slaves. The result was a spectacular failure of an empire at its zenith which had taken centuries to buildup as the slaves took over.

The West had learned its lessons. All western countries are basically security states where all actions are dictated by supreme national interests. China too was a country built by a military genius Mao Zedong and all these countries pursue policies and take actions where their security is paramount. All policy initiatives are subservient to the security interests of the nation. India on the other hand had an elite who inherited freedom and truly believed in its initial years that it was a moral triumph of the freedom struggle wherein the British was forced to with draw. For those still believing in 'Moral Triumph', one need to look no further than the Apartheid regime in South Africa which was backed by the West till the early 90's a good 4 and half decades after our Independence.

All actions of nations are dictated by their supreme national interests, and the Indian nation has slowly and painfully learned a lot of lessons and continue to learn the hard facts of the world that nuclear weapons and a 40 billion USD budget are not able to guarantee the security of its citizenry. Now I leave it to wiser minds and greyer hair than mine to evaluate the options in the physical world. The cyber domain is a field that needs younger minds and fresher ideas. I say this because other than being reactive and getting driven into a fait accompli our boffins have not done justice to this nation and its potential. I am pasting a para from the Wikipedia on safe harbour to elaborate:-

Safe Harbour

In 1980, the OECD issued recommendations for protection of personal data in the form of 7 principles. These were non-binding and in 1995, the European Union (EU) enacted a law to protect personal data privacy in form of the Data Protection Directive.

According to the Data Protection Directive, companies operating in the European Union are not permitted to send personal data to "third countries" outside the European Economic Area, unless they guarantee adequate levels of protection, "the data subject himself agrees to the transfer" or "if Binding corporate rules or Standard Contractual Clauses have been authorised." The latter means that privacy protection can be at an organizational level, where a multinational organization produces and documents its internal controls on personal data or they can be at the level of a country if its laws are considered to offer protection equal to the EU.

The Safe Harbour Privacy Principles were developed between 1998-2000. They were designed to prevent private organizations within the European Union or United States which store customer data from accidentally disclosing or losing personal information. US companies could opt into a program and be certified if they adhered to seven principles and 15 frequently asked questions and answers per the Directive. In July 2000, the European Commission (EC) decided that US companies complying with the principles and registering their certification that they met the EU requirements, the so-called "safe harbour scheme", were allowed to transfer data from the EU to the US. This is referred to as the Safe Harbour Decision.

On 6 October 2015, the European Court of Justice invalidated the EC's Safe Harbour Decision, because "legislation permitting the public authorities to have access on a generalised basis to the content of electronic communications must be regarded as compromising the essence of the fundamental right to respect for private life"

Cyber space can be defended only by indigenous technology the expertise for which lie in the private industry, all training, patches, updates have no meaning if the legal writ of the nation with the necessary military heft to back it up does not run in the domain. If all constitutional posts, armed forces and civil servants which make the nation run are not Indian citizens with absolute loyalty and interests in the nation these cannot be trusted and will undermine you, this is the precise reason the Constitution mandates these. The Snowden revelations are the proof. Confusing these by bringing in specious arguments like technology, competence, our outsourcing industry etc are missing the wood for the trees.

Frame the policies and the legislative initiatives now or be prepared for history to condemn you as having slept on your watch is the only message I can convey with due humility and respect to our political and security elite. The industry bodies whose commercial interests are aligned with American interests will kick and scream, lots of uninformed well intentioned citizens will protest, but can we write off the security and economic interests of this nation for such small discomforts ? The citizens of Syria who are now refugees in Europe would have never dreamt 10 years back that their women would be sold as slaves in the 21st century in a globalised world. Syria as a nation was much more industrialised in comparison to India.

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